Risk/risk comparison is often used to dismiss public concern, and the arguments usually ignore how risks are cumulative.
Latest example: data centers. They add unnecessarily to existing environmental health risks. We don't have to take on all such hazards to be "right" in opposing this one.
Bob Shull
Data centers aren’t more wasteful of land, water, power than lots of other industrial or agricultural uses that don’t generate the same kind of public pushback. What’s also interesting is that everyone on here tries to make this out as an anti-AI thing and this polling shows that isn’t true.
Will Stancil
This is condescending and, most importantly, completely ignorant of the actual, real and material reasons communities object to data centre developments (primarily: environment and resource concerns, which they genuinely understand very well and can explain with specific, accurate detail)
Ketan Joshi
Genuinely don’t understand what’s happening here - it’s not like there’s been some major data center disaster. It feels like a meme around an issue the public only loosely understands to begin with
Will Stancil
"The public has swung 49 points against data centers in just nine months"
lol heatmap.news/politics/ame...
heatmap.news
A new Heatmap Pro poll shows a rapid shift in public opinion since last fall.
